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A complete body of divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the…A compleat body of divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the…
A complete body of divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the Assembly's Shorter catechism wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are unfolded, their truth confirmed, their excellence displayed, their usefulness improved; contrary errors & vices refuted & exposed, objections answered, controversies settled, cases of conscience resolved; and a great light thereby reflected on the present age. / By the Reverend & learned Samuel Willard, M.A. late Pastor of the South Church in Boston, and vice-president of Harvard College in Cambridge, in New-England. ; Prefaced by the pastors of the same church. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]A compleat body of divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the Assembly's Shorter catechism wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are unfolded, their truth confirm'd, their excellence display'd, their usefulness improv'd; contrary errors & vices refuted & expos'd, objections answer'd, controversies settled, cases of conscience resolv'd; and a great light thereby reflected on the present age. / By the Reverend & learned Samuel Willard, M.A. late Pastor of the South Church in Boston, and vice-president of Harvard College in Cambridge, in New-England. ; Prefac'd by the pastors of the same church. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
printed by B. Green and S. Kneeland for B. Eliot and D. Henchman, 1726
AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 53 (Question 13 cont.)
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(1.) THAT man was at first created with perfect liberty or freedom of will. This belonged to the integrity in which God made him. Feel. 7.29. God made man upright. Adam had all that conferred upon him, whereby he was completely fitted for the obedience which God required at his hands; there was nothing wanting that was due to his nature, ⟨p. 186⟩as a creature in […] an order, a•d made for •••h an end. He •ad a law giver him, sa•ta•le to his ••••te; he had a• understanding a•le […] to •ead•r, a•d d•ce•n the rano•a••y o• it; a […] able to discover ••s obligation to it, and r••• b•th the rewards and penalties an e•ed to it; he had […] gracious qualities in him, which disposed him to love and delig•• in, a•d accordingly to choose the ways of obedience and had not any the least natural inc•na•••a to sin […] in him.
(1.) THAT man was at first created with perfect li••rty or freedom of will. This belonged to the integrity in which God made him. Feel. 7.29. God made man upright. Adam had all that conferred upon him, whereby he was compleatly fitted for the obedience which God required at his hands; there was nothing wanting that was due to his nature,